On the evening of the fourth day of the seventh year of Jian'an, I set foot on the land of Chaisang City for the first time.

At noon today, Wenpin led more than ten of his personal entourages to Pengze and sent an invitation on behalf of Kuai Liang——————Kuai Liang invited me to Chaisang to discuss the matter of eliminating the remnants of the Sun family.

Without hesitation, I agreed to the invitation, and simply arranged military affairs with Pang Tong, Hao Zhao and others, and then took Guan Ping to Chaisang.

Chaisang was established in the former Han Dynasty and was named after the area of ​​Chaisang Mountain. It belonged to the territory of Jing and Yang. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Chaisang belonged to the eastern territory of Wu and the western territory of Chu, so it was called "Wu Head and Chu Tail".

The development of Chaisang was very early, and it started in the Xia and Shang dynasties and has continued to this day. It has become a scattered carriage and a gathering of merchants.

The avenue in Chaisang City is wide, estimated to be 6 or 7 meters long. The roads paved with bluestone are very neat. There are houses on both sides of the road, and the prosperity of the city can be vaguely seen.

However, when I looked around, I couldn't see the pedestrians and people on the streets, and I saw the soldiers of Jingzhou patrolling from time to time. Moreover, there were many stalls on the bluestone road with red marks that were vaguely dark, and flies and insects were flying around.

It is obvious that those dark red marks are blood stains that have not been washed away.

"Uncle San, look!" Guan Ping, who was riding beside him, said to me softly.

The direction Guan Ping pointed out was a mansion of a large size. But unfortunately, the mansion was destroyed very much, and there was even one left on the main entrance facing the street. Through the half-open door, you can even see the messy scene in the mansion that had not been cleaned up.

Judging from the countless blood stains on the ground, the Jingzhou army probably had invaded this mansion and carried out a large-scale killing.

A humid evening breeze blew, bringing a faint smell of blood.

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Chaisang, County Magistrate's Reception Room

Leaving the personal guards outside the hall, Guan Ping and I followed Wen Pin into the hall.

There were a dozen Jingzhou military generals waiting in the hall. Wen Pin stepped forward and bowed to the middle-aged general who was sitting upright and bowed: "Governor Kuai. The last general has invited General Zhang!"

Although the middle-aged general wore a blue battle robe, he had a gentle face. He could tell at a glance that he was from a scholar, and he must be Kuai Liang. I have been famous for a long time. Even Sun Jian and Huang Gai, the long-time generals on the battlefield, were able to show his ability.

Kuai Liang stood up and rushed towards me. He bowed and smiled, "Zhang Pingnan's tiger power is here, Kuai is honored!"

"Governor Kuai is polite!" I replied with a bow and said with a smile, "Mr. Zhang has also heard of Governor Kuai's name for a long time!"

"Dingguo, I have come here to meet Governor Kuai!" I waved my hand at Guan Ping and said to Kuai Liang, "This is to give up my nephew Guan Ping!"

"The backwards came to Guan Ping and met Governor Kuai!" Guan Ping bowed respectfully and said.

"Can it be the descendant of Guan Junhou?" Kuai Liang looked at Guan Ping carefully and said in amazement, "It turns out that he is a general, and he has the style of a king and marquis!"

Immediately, Kuai Liang also introduced the generals of Jingzhou in the hall to me. Interestingly, these generals seemed to be divided into two factions—one of them. They seemed more enthusiastic about my arrival, while the other one was colder.

"Uncle Lao and General Zhang will help me. Only then can I quickly defeat Sun Quan's rebel thieves and seize Chaisang this time!" After the guest and the guest were settled, Kuai Liang thanked me politely.

"My two families are in an alliance, and they have a promise to attack and defend together. They should support each other, so why bother thanking me!" I waved my hand and laughed, "What's more, Sun Quan's rebels are also the common enemy of our two families!"

"If our army did not help, how could they capture Lujiang and Danyang? This time they sent troops. It is natural..." Cai Xun said in a ignorant and uneven manner.

Guan Ping's face was slightly dark, and a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he was about to rise. I raised my right hand slightly, stopped Guan Ping, and looked at Kuai Liang without saying a word.

"Cough!" Kuai Liang coughed lightly, looked at Cai Xun with a look of discomfort, and then said with a little guilty voice, "...Person Zhang, please forgive me!"

"Where? Where!" I said with a smile. The atmosphere in this hall is really strange. It seems that Pang Tong is right———there is indeed a bit unharmonious within the Jingzhou Army. Judging from the current situation, the two factions of the Jingzhou Army in the hall.

One faction was headed by Cai Mao, and the other was headed by Kuai Liang. The Cai Mao faction seemed to be somewhat hostile to our army; while the Kuai Liang faction, at least on the surface, was relatively friendly to our army.

"General Zhang, the bandit chief Sun Quan was killed, and most of Sun Ni's troops were destroyed by our two families. Sun Ni's remnants were declining.

The biggest threat now is Zhou Yu, who leads his army south to Luling…” Kuai Liang stopped exchanging greetings and said directly, “Zhou Yu has only more than 10,000 troops under his command, but this person is very good at governing the army and is extremely cunning.

Although I was a little ashamed, my Jingzhou army was indeed defeated by this person. Fortunately, General Zhang defeated Zhou Yu in Danyang a few years ago, and he defeated this person's arrogance."

When the generals in Jingzhou in the hall heard this, they all showed a hint of shame. Cai Mao, Cai Xun and others even flashed jealousy in their eyes, and the object was naturally - me.

Kuai Liang is indeed not a character who is easy to mess with. These few words seem to explain the situation and express their "admiration" for me, but they have other intentions inside. He simply wanted to transfer Cai Mao's anger to me.

According to the information provided by Pang Tong, Cai Mao was a narrow-minded person who was good at jealous and jealous. The previous generation, Kuai Liang used Cai Mao as a bait to conquer E County in one fell swoop, which would inevitably make the Kuai and Cai families bad.

This time, Kuai Liang wanted to use me to play a "transfer disaster to Jiangdong" strategy to divert Cai Mao's attention.

This guy Kuai Liang is just a perfect "smiling tiger"!

After a pause, Kuai Liang continued: "As long as Zhou Yu can be defeated, the Sun family will be rebellious and will inevitably collapse without fighting."

"What good strategy does Kuai have to defeat Zhou Yu?" I simply pretended to be stupid.

"Zhou Yu is good at defeating the enemy through action. If our two soldiers take the initiative to fight, it would be extremely unfavorable..." Kuai Liang said calmly, "On the contrary, if we can induce Zhou Yu to take the initiative to invite the battle, our two families will wait for their leisure and it will be better to defeat it!"

"Yeah..." I nodded and said in agreement, "Du Kuai said so much, but how can I induce him to take the initiative to invite the battle?"

"..." Kuai Liang frowned and thought for a moment, and said in a deep thought, "General Zhang. I wonder if Sun Quan's body is still safe?"

"I have ordered someone to bury Sun Quan's body..." I replied with a smile. In fact, Sun Quan's body was not buried.

Because the weather was hot, I asked someone to treat the body with anti-corrosion, and secretly transported it back to Moling, and sent a quick horse to Shouchun to ask my elder brother how to deal with it. Sun Quan's body was different from ordinary people, and even I could not handle it at will.

"General Zhang! Kuai thought.

But Sun Quan's body was raised up again to force Zhou Yu to return to the army to fight with our army..." Kuai Liang seemed to be ignorant of the matter of digging people's coffins, "In addition, did General Zhang also capture many of Sun Quan's relatives and officials? I wonder if there is Zhou Yu's wife Qiao in it? I heard that Zhou Yu was very affectionate with his wife. If this woman threatened him, Zhou Yu would not dare to look at him lightly!"

"This..." I frowned and thought hard. "I didn't pay attention!" Then, I turned to Guan Ping and said, "Dingguo, are there Zhou Yu's wife among those people?"

Guan Ping looked at me, shook his head and said, "Report to the third uncle, Kuai Du, that he had never found Zhou Yu's wife. Maybe she did not escape from Chaisang!"

"How is that possible?" Cai Xun couldn't help but refuted anxiously.

"..." Kuai Liang glanced at Cai Xun coldly, scaring his words back, "It's better not to have it! General Zhang. Kuai thought that these relatives and officials could force Zhou Yu to return!"

The suggestions made by Kuai Liang sounded quite reasonable at first glance, and using Sun Quan's corpse and those captured lands was indeed very likely to force Zhou Yu to commit crimes.

However, if I really do this, the only one who benefits the most is the Jingzhou army, which will benefit us all. This way.

Not only will it damage the reputation of our elder brother and endanger our army's foundation in Jiangdong, but the captured Sun Quan officials, such as Zhang Zhao, Lu Su, will never surrender to our elder brother, and the Sun family's remaining ministers will fight our army to the end!

Kuai Liang's proposal is simply a way to harm others and benefit oneself in one stone.

"Duke Kuai, from the perspective of Fei, there is no need to be like this at all..." I smiled. It seemed that I didn't take Zhou Yu seriously, "Although Zhou Yu is good at using troops, but now the general trend is in a way that he can turn the world upside down and he is unable to turn the world.

One of his troops was not many, and the other was not very strong. I thought that the news of Chai Sang losing and Sun Quan's death was spread out in a large number of days, and the morale of the army would be dispersed. At that time, our two armies attacked each other on both sides, so what's the difficulty of breaking it?"

I looked at Kuai Liang, then turned to face Cai Mao, and said with a high voice: "In this way, Zhou Yu will be defeated completely and have nothing to say!"

"This strategy is very wonderful!" Cai Mao's eyes suddenly lit up, and he actually agreed with me.

After Cai Mao took the lead, the other Cai generals also expressed their agreement.

"What do you think of Kuai?" I looked at Kuai Liang with a smile.

"..." A strange look flashed in Kuai Liang's eyes unknown, and he nodded with a smile, "General Zhang's strategy is also a good plan!"

"Okay!" I gently patted the table and said, "In this way, our two armies worked together to conduct detailed work. While inquiring about Zhou Yu's movements, the news spread as widely as possible across the counties of Yuzhang and Luling.

Once Zhou Yu is in a precise direction, our army will attack at the same time and defeat him in one fell swoop!"

"good……"

Just as I and Kuai Liang and others were discussing some details about jointly extermination of the Sun family's rebellion, a general of the Jingzhou army hurried into the hall.

After this man bowed to Kuai Liang and Cai Mao each, he came to Kuai Liang and whispered in a low voice.

In a moment, Kuai Liang's face quickly became dark, as if he had heard something very bad.

"If there is something important to me, I will take my leave first!" I bowed to Kuai Liang and said with a faint smile.

"..." Kuai Liang pondered for a moment, waved his hand at me and said, "It might as well, General Zhang is not an outsider, and this matter has something to do with both my family!"

"I don't know what's going on?"

"My army of General Liu Zhonglang on the South Road was defeated by Zhou Yu and has retreated back to Changsha!" Kuai Liang sighed and said in a deep voice.

Zhou Yu is really extraordinary this time. Although he was ill and rested for half a year, he showed his skills beautifully as soon as he came back! I frowned and thought for a moment, and asked in a deep voice, "Duke Kuai, how dare you ask when Zhou Yu defeated General Liu Lang's army?"

Kuai Liang looked at me in surprise, then replied in a deep voice: "About 5 days ago!"

"How did General Liu Lang suffer from defeat?" I asked another question.

"Being fire attacked by Zhou Yu!"

"So that's it!" I nodded and stopped talking. Defeating Liu Pan means that Zhou Yu has freed up his hands and feet. Next, he will either go north to rescue Chaisang or go east to resist our army.

But with the importance of Chaisang, he would definitely choose to go north. So, no matter whether he received help from Chaisang or not, Zhou Yu would rush back to Chaisang. It took more than 5 days and it would be almost done.

This means that Zhou Yu is likely to have sneaked on the side. Moreover, due to the fire attack, Zhou Yu's losses will definitely not be large and can maintain a relatively complete combat power.

Obviously, Kuai Liang should have thought of this too...

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The next morning, Guan Ping and I bid farewell to Kuai Liang and others, left Chaisang, and returned to Pengze.

"Uncle San..." On the way, Guan Ping hesitated and said to me, "The Kuai Liangxiang is not simple..." When I was in Chaisang last night, I saw that Guan Ping seemed to have intention to ask me something, but it might be because he was in a place other than that, so he gave up.

"Oh~?" I smiled and turned to look at Guan Ping, asking with a sophistication, "Dingguo, tell me, how come he is not simple?"

"He's method of 'using corpses and captives to force Zhou Yu to fight' seems to be very beneficial to Jingzhou, but it is... very unfavorable to his uncle," Guan Ping said uncertainly.

"No, you have made progress!" I nodded and laughed, "Kuai Zirou is not an easy opponent to mess with!"

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Sun Yi and Sun Kuang brothers rushed to Nancheng County in a panic under the escort of more than 200 Chen Wu's remnants.

"Third Young Master, Fourth Young Master, it's great to see you safe..." Zhou Yu led Zhu Ran, Lu Meng and other lieutenant generals bowed to the Sun brothers and said.

"Brother Gongjin..." When they saw Zhou Yu and Sun Yi, Sun Kuang was also extremely excited, but soon their excitement turned into shock, "Your head..."

"It's okay!" One end looked particularly dazzling like snow silver threads, adding a bit of vicissitudes of beauty to Zhou Yu. He smiled with some difficulty, and Zhou Yu said in a weak voice.

"Brother Gongjin..." The Sun brothers looked at Zhou Yu in a daze, unable to even say a complete sentence.

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After successfully meeting Zhou Yu, the Sun brothers' tense nerves finally let go a little. Then, Sun Yi passed on Sun Quan's last order to Zhou Yu. Zhou Yu immediately stated that he would regard Sun Yi as the head of the fourth generation of Sun family.

When Zhou Yu heard Sun Quan's last words, "If there is something to do, then do it; if the thing is not to do, you can also give up", he couldn't help but feel silent. In fact, since the fall of Chaisang and the day when Sun Quan passed away, the Sun family's foundation was destined to be unsustainable.
Chapter completed!